SERMON NOTE: Reach Out With HIS Love-HIS Power To Heal-JESUS Healed The Invalid At The Pool
By Rev Dr Chuah SP
Bible Ref: John? ?5:1-15? ?NIV??
“Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.” But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ” So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?” The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.”
http://bible.us/111/jhn.5.1-3,5-15.niv
V1-5 JESUS at the legendary pool with a multitude of destitute people
V6-9, JESUS Revealed HIS knowledge, HIS power and HIS Love ("Do you want to be healed?")
The invalid man from helpless to
Hopeless
V9b-10, The Jews Leader picked on JESUS for by saying to the healed man that he is not supposed to "work" on Sabbath to picked up the mate.
V11-13, the man was not confident and blamed JESUS
V14, JESUS asked the man to sin no more, so that nothing worse may come upon him.
JESUS wants us to sin no more to live a Life of Holiness and Power
"lest something worse may come upon us"
There is "Final judgement that will come"
The miracles that JESUS performed is for us to...
Seek HIS Glory - know who HE is!
For we know now that JESUS is All Knowing, All Loving, All Powerful, we can rest in HIS Promises